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Syntactic analysis - test

Syntactic analysis - test. Provide your own analysis of the sentences on the next slide before consulting the proposed solutions. Test sentences. Everybody slept Everybody was sleeping Everybody was fast asleep Everybody slept for hours

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Syntactic analysis - test

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  1. Syntactic analysis - test Provide your own analysis of the sentences on the next slide before consulting the proposed solutions

  2. Test sentences • Everybody slept • Everybody was sleeping • Everybody was fast asleep • Everybody slept for hours • Unfortunately, everybody was fast asleep when a burgler broke in through the window • When2-year old Tommy woke up because he needed a drink of milk, the burgler was silently filling his sack with the family silver • Seeing Tommy, he jumped, and, seeing the burglar, Tommy jumped the other way Click on a sentence to go to the proposed solution

  3. S Subject Predicate VP NP Modalisation Predication Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ Pro Head V Everybody -ed sleep 1. Everybody slept

  4. S Subject Predicate NP VP Modalisation Predication Pro Aux [+Fin] [+Past] [+Prog] V´ Head V Everybody -ed be -ing sleep 2. Everybody was sleeping

  5. S Subject Predicate NP VP Modalisation Predication Pro Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ Head CS V AP Specifier AdvP A´ Head A Everybody -ed be fast asleep 3. Everybody was fast asleep

  6. S Subject Predicate NP VP Adjunct Pro VP PP Modalisation Predication Head Complement P NP Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ Head V Everybody -ed sleep for hours 4. Everybody slept for hours

  7. S Adjunct Subject Predicate Adjunct AdvP NP VP S´ Modalisation Predication S Pro Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ Comp Head CS Subject Predicate V AP NP VP Specifier Specifier Adjunct AdvP A´ D N´ VP PP Head Head A N Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ P NP Head D N Unfortunately everybody -ed be fast asleep V Particle when a burglar -ed break in through the window 5. Unfortunately, everybody was fast asleep when a burgler broke in through the window

  8. S 0 Adjunct Subject Predicate S´ NP VP the burgler Comp S 1 was silently filling his sack with the family silver When 2-year old Tommy woke up because he needed a drink of milk Click on the purple nodes to see proposed analysis

  9. When 2-year old Tommy woke up because he needed a drink of milk, the burglar was silently filling his sack with the family silver

  10. S´ Comp S 1 Adjunct NP VP S´ When Aux AP ProperN V´ S Comp 2 [+Fin] [+Past] Compl Specifier Adv V NP A´ Tommy -ed up because he needed a drink of milk wake A 2-year old When 2-year old Tommy woke up because he needed a drink of milk, the burglar was silently filling his sack with the family silver Click on the purple node to see proposed analysis

  11. S 2 Subject Predicate VP NP Modalisation He Aux V´ [+Fin] [+Past] Head DO NP V -ed Spec D N´ need Head Complement N PP Head a drink P NP of milk

  12. S 0 S S Coord 1 2 Seeing Tommy, he jumped seeing the burglar, and Tommy jumped the other way Click on the purple node to see proposed analysis

  13. S 1 Adjunct Subject Predicate S´ NP VP Pro V´ Aux [+Fin] V S Comp [+Past] 3 he -ed jump Subject Predicate NP VP Ø Ø Aux V´ [-Fin] Head DO V NP -ing see Tommy

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